Getting computer's utc offset in Python

Question

Hopefully a simple question, but I've been searching and searching with no luck:

In Python, is there a way to figure out what utc time offset the computer is set to?

Answer 1

gmtime() will return the UTC time and localtime() will return the local time so subtracting the two should give you the utc offset.

Answer 2

time.timezone:

import time

print time.timezone

It prints UTC offset in seconds (to take into account Daylight Saving Time (DST) see time.altzone.